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A15297	The true copye of a prolog wrytten about two C. yeres paste by Iohn Wycklife (as maye iustly be gatherid bi that, that Iohn Bale hath writte[n] of him in his boke entitlid the Summarie of famouse writers of the Ile of great Brita[n]) the originall whereof is founde written in an olde English Bible bitwixt the olde Testament and the Newe. Whych Bible remaynith now in ye Kyng hys maiesties chamber.; Dore of holy scripture	Purvey, John, 1353?-1428?; Wycliffe, John, d. 1384, attributed name.; Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588.	1550 (1550)	STC 25588; ESTC S119922	80,292	256

that yeuethe thus the cure of soules to vnable men is worse than Herod that pursued Christ and worse thā Iewis and heathen mē that crucifiden Christ. Gros●…id seith this plainly and preuithe it openly byfore the pope and all hys clergie And the ye that procutē beneficis either rychessis ●…o men hatē hem to whom the●…●…rocuren thus as if they procuryde hem to be set in the cop of the chirch in whirle winds and great tēpestis Grosted seyth thys in hys sermon ▪ Scriptum est ●…e Leuitis And he that is negligent to drawe soulis out of the ●…yt of sinne as mych as he maye by the order of lawe and he that letti●…h hym of hys werke sleythe the souls And he settith more price bi a flesh●… shepe than a gostly shepe y t is mans soule Yea settith more price bi a peny than by the lyfe of Gods so●…e whych is worth all thys worlde A rechlesse curat that sleeth so get ys by euyl ensample and with drawing of Goddis worde is worse than the vnreasonable beastis he is worse than the crucifiers of Christe for he crucifieth him in his mēbres Good councelloures they bene alone that bene wyse men and dread God For whye al couetouse men bene foolys and vnwyse men And to belede by the counsell of hem is to dyspose of 〈◊〉 by the councell of foxys and to dyspose of foldes of Shepe by the counsell of wolues Gros●…ede seyth thys in a sermon Premonitus a venerabili patre Se ye lords and prelatis that maken vnable curatis for fleshly affection and yeftys and specyally for pleiynge at the beere and other vnlefull iapis what treasone ye done to God and what harme to Christis chirch your auaūsees Ye maken horryble abominacion of dis comforte stond in the holy place for ye maken Antichrist to stonde at the hygh auter in the stede of Chryste and treate the holye sacramente of Christes fleshe and blude full vnworthyly And as Parisyens seyth whan ye maken a coueitous pryest to stōd at the auter ye makē a Moldy warpe to stonde there in the stede of Chryste And whan ye maken a fonde Byshope that can not and louyth not Goddis lawe stonde mytryde at the auter ye maken an hornyde asse stonde at the auter in stede of Christe And so of other vnreasonable Beastys as Lyons Woluys Berys Apis Dragons Hoggis Doggis other visious Priestys Proude Coueitouse Raueinouris wrathfulle Hypo●…ritis trecherouse Glotenouse Lecherouse Enuious and Back byteris Ye trans fyguren Satanas into an angelle of lyghte whan ye maken curatys eyther prelatys that bene contrarye to Christ to occupie the office of a bishop Abbot eyther pryeste Lordes and prelatys that haue set suche Idolys in goddys house as Manasses dyde Sue ye Manasses in very repētaūce and makyng of amendis to god and men Also lordis and prelatis exciten strongly men to do I dolatrye For thei swerē custōabli nedles●…i oft vnauisely and false by the membres of god by Chryste and by seyntis in so mych that eche lorde and prelate comynly maketh to hym an Idole of some seint whō he worshipyth more then god For comenly they sweren by our lady of walsyngham seynte Iohn Baptyst seynt Edward seint Thomas of Canterburie and suche other seintis and chargen more this ooth then though they sweren by y ● holy Trinitie And in all thys they honourē more these seintis than thei honourē the holy Trinity Thoughe it were leful toswere biseyntis this is Idolatrie to charge more an othe made by suche seyntis than by God almighti either by the holi Trinitie Nethelesse Chrisostom wytnessyth on the. v. chapiter of Mathew that to swere by ani creature is to do Idolatrie For as Ierome there and decrees in the. xxii cause i. question Siquis per capillum and Capite next bifore and Decretalis De Iur●…iurando Capite Etsi Christus wyttnesseth playnly that to Swere by a Creature is ayens goddis cōmaūdement And therfore Christ in the. v chapiter of Mathew cōmaundythe to not swere bi heauē neither bi erth and vnderstondyth bi heauē earth creaturys of heauen creaturys of erth And in al the olde lawe it is not foundun where Godde grauntythe to swere by any creature but onli bi hys owne name or by hym selfe And therfore the wyse man seyth in the xxiii chapiter of Ecclesiasticus A manne that swerythe myche shalbe fyllyd wyth wyckydnes and vengeaunce shall not go awaye fro hys house And efte he seythe Thy mouth be not customably to swexeynge for whi mych fallynge is in it The ●…empning of God be not custo mable in thy mouth that is to swere by hys name in vayne eyther false e●… ther for an euylle ende And be thou not medlid wyth y e namis of seynts that is to swere bi seyntis For thou shalte not be gyltlesse of hem Here Lordys and Prelatys moune se howe theye done openne Idolatrie whan they gessen to honoure Seyntis And here opē dedis of Idolatrie bene open bokis of Idolatrye and Blasphemye to here soget●…s Therfore as Gregory seyth in the seconde boke of Pastorallis the fifte chapiter ▪ Prelatis bene worthy so many Deathes how many ensamples of perdision theye senden to sogettis And in the fyue and twenty chapiter of Numer●… God bade Mo ses hong all the Pryncys in Iebats ayens the Sunne for the puple of Iscaell dyd Lechery and Idolatrye by ensample and sufferaūce of hem Nowe in Englonde it is a common protection ayens Persecutyon of Prelatis and some Lordys yf a man be customable to swere nedles false and vnauysyde by the bones naylys and sydys and other membrys of Chryste to be proude and Lecherouse and speake not of Goddis lawe and repreue not Synne aboute him And to a bstayn fro othis nedelesse and not leful and to eshewe Pryde and speake Honour of God and hys Lawe and repreue Synne be waye of Charitie is mattere and cawse nowe whye Prelatis some Lords slaūder mē clepen hem low lardis Heritikis reisars of debate of treason ayens the Kynge Nowe Manasses sertethe Idols openly in the temple of God and styryth men greatly to do Idolatrie cherisheth hein that breakē openly gods hestis puny sheth hem sore as heathē men eyther heretykis that bysien hem to learne kepe and teach goddis hests The. iii. time lordis prelatis both sheden innocent bloud as Manasses did For thei wastē folili here goods in w●…yngis pleyingis binyghtis and in reresopers and in other vanities and takē greate vnmesurable taxes of the comens And lesse lords and prelatis done greate extortions to pore mē takē poremēs goodis paye little or nought and out of tyme for tho Therfore as Miche the prophet seyth in the. iii. chapiter they hielden pore mē and eaten here fleshe And Grostede declareth thys well in hys dict that begynyth thus Siut lumbi vestri preci●…cti and in thē

As in the tenth Chapter of Genisis it is seyde of the Sonnis of Noe. The Ilis of the heathen folke in here contreys weren departid of the sonnes of Noe eche man by his langage And within the same x Chapter it is seyde These ●…en the sonnis of Cham in kynreddes and langagis And afterwarde it is seyd in the xi Chapter The londe was of oo langage and of the same wordis Wherof it is open that this that is byfore seyde of y e departyng of langagis is seyde by Anticipacion In like maner in ii Chapter of Genesis After that Moses in i. Chapter had discreuid the creation either making of nought of heauen and of earth the departing ourning of y ● world he sayde these benethe generations of heauen and of earthe in the daie in whiche tho weren made Wherof it is open that this is seyde by recapitulacion either rehersyng of thing done bifore The. vii rule is of y ● deuell of his body For as Gregorye seyth in the tenth Homelie Certis y e deuill is heade of al wicked mē And all wycked mē be membres of thys heade And therfore the knettynge togither of the hede to the membres the scrip ture that speakith of one passith in y e same knittinge togither of reason to speake of y ● tother As in the. xiiii Chapter of Esaie Wher y ● scripture weake●…h of the king of Babilō that was a membre of the deuil it passith to speake of prince of fendis whan 〈◊〉 is seyd there Lucifer that risidiste ●…ly howe feldist thou downe fro heauen And in the. xxviii chapter of Ezechiel wher the scriptur speaketh of y ● prince of Tire it passith to speak of the deuil when it is addid Thou a signet eyther a printe of y ● lykenes of God were full of wysedome and perfecte in fayrnes in the delicite of Paradise of God Lire seyth al this in the seconde prologe of Genesis Here Lire rehersyth the sentence of S. Austin of Isidre in these rulis and declarith hem openly by holye Scripture and reasone and countrith not Austin but declarith hym full myche to simple mens wyt and addith more by Scripture and reasōe y ● Austine touchith not Though these rulis and keyes of Scripture bryngin men to greate vnderstāding therof yet men motē take hede what is seyde of Chryste of his godheade and what by hys manheade For Chryst by his māheade is seyd lesse than the father and by the godhead he is sey de euē wyth the father And for asmuch as Chryst is boeth God and man we grauntē that God was deadly and dyed on the Crosse. Not by his godheade but by the māhead of Chryste that was ioyned in oneheade of persone wyth the godhead And we graunt as the Gospel doth that man whyle he was deadly vpon earth was in heauē for his godheade was ther he also by reasone therof Also we moun graunte well that a man made both heauen and earth For Christe by his godheade which Christe is and was mā dyd thus Also holy Scriptur tellith oft the thoughtis of men and of the wor dis dedis And whā the thoughtis wordis and dedis of men ben contrari oo Gospellar tellith y ● thoughtis a nother tellith the wordis and by this equiuocation either diuers speakinge they bene accordid Yea whan they semen contrarie in wordis Also ofte in storiall mattir scripture rehersyth the cōmone opinion of mē and affirmeth not that it was so in dede In this maner the Gospel seith that Ioseph was the father of Chryste though he neuer gendrid Christ. For Mary Christis mother was euer clene virgine Thus the Gospell seyth that at the beheadyng of Iohn Baptiste Herod was sorie yet as doctours seyne he was full glad therof But he feined him sory ▪ for the puple the puple gessid hym sory Also though scriptur do reherse how holimē liuiden doth cōmend hem grea●…li it appreuith not all here dedis For many great sāctis erridē foule in many points And thoughe scripture do tel the stories of euil mē and dampnid it repreueth not herefore all thyngis which thei didē For though thei werē hemsilfe ful cursid thei didē many good dedis of kynd sometime peraduēture many good dedis of vertue if they werē in grace for a tyme. At the laste take ye good hede whan the scripture speakith by commaundement to all men whā it geueth commaundement to certen personnes of dyuers statis In the fyrste poynte all men moten do as it seith In the seconde tyme the personis of statis spicified motē nedis obeye Whan scripture speakith only by counsell men mouue be saued though they do not the counsell As full many men and womē moune be saued though they take not virginitie neither continence neither yeue all here goodis to poore men And yet these bene here counsellis of Iesu Christ in the Gospell The. xv Chapter EOr as mych as Christ seith that the gospel shal be prea chid in all the worlde and Dauid seyth of y ● Apostlis and here preachyng y e sowne of hem yede out into eche londe the wordis of hem yeden oute into the endes of the worlde efte Dauid seith the Lorde shall tell in the scriptures of puples and of these pryncis y t werē in it that is in holye chirche as Ie●…ome seyth on that verse holy wryte is the scripture of puples for it is made y ● al puples shuldē know it and the princis of the chirch y t werē therin benthe Apostlis y ● haddē autoritie to writen holye wryte for by that same that the Apostlys wryttyden here scripturis by autoryti and confyrmynge of the holy goste it is holy scripture and feyth of chrysten men And thys dygnitie hath no man aftir hem be he neuer so holy neuer so kūnynge as Ierome wytnessyth on that verse also Chryste seyth of the Iewis that criden Osanna to him in the temple that though they werē styll stonis shoulden crye and by stonis he vnderstōdith heathen men that worshipen stonis for here Goddis and we English men ben cōmen of heathen men therfore we ben vnderstonden bithese stones that shulē crye holy write and as Iewes inter pretyd knoleching singnifien clerks that shulden knowlech to Godde by repentaūce of synnis and bi voice of Gods heriynge so oure lewide men suing the corner stone Christ moun be syngnyfyede by stonys that bene harde and abydinge in the foūdemēt for though couetouse clarkys bene wode bi simoni heresie mani other sinnis and dispisen and stoppen holy write as mych as they moune yet the lewde puple cryethe after holye wryt to kun it and kepe it with grete cost and perile of here lyfe For these reasones and other wyth cōmune charitye to saue al mē in our rewme which God wol haue sauide a symple creature hath translatyde the